Examples of “publicly” in a Sentence

adverb In a way that is open and visible to everyone, not in private.

• The council meets publicly, so any resident can come and listen.
• The CEO publicly apologized for the data breach.
• He refused to discuss the matter publicly.

adverb On behalf of, or paid for by, the public.

• Publicly owned parks and libraries are paid for by local taxes.
• Many people prefer publicly run hospitals to private ones.
• The stadium was built with publicly funded money.